We’ve analysed all of the newly created grant-making trusts (foundations) registered in England and Wales since 2005 – a data set of 2,312 new grant-makers. Our findings are in a new Factary report, ‘Trust Women’, available for download here.

Key Findings:

Boards are not balanced – on average there is just one woman per board across all of these trusts.

Almost one third (29.7%) had all-men boards when they were registered.

Just one trust in five has women in the majority on boards.

And we found some evidence that trusts with women in the majority were poorer at start-up than those with men-majority boards.